SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL Information

Catspaw, Inc. provides the SNOBOL4 language for many different computer
platforms, including DOS, Macintosh, Sun, RS/6000, and others. SNOBOL4
is a programming language tailored to complex pattern matching and text
manipulation. SPITBOL is a very high performance, 32-bit implementation
of the SNOBOL4 language.

Specifications and ordering information for the various versions of
SPITBOL can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat PDF format by clicking
here. Click here to download
Acrobat Reader from Adobe.

Professor Peter-Arno Coppen of the Katholic University of Nijmegen (Netherlands)
has material on SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL, including his "dirty" SNOBOL4 page.
Go
to Peter-Arno's SNOBOL pages.

SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL Mail List Server

An unmoderated list server is available for discussion of the SNOBOL4 language.
When you "subscribe" to the list, e-mail messages sent by you are forwarded
automatically to all other subscribers, and vice-versa. Click
here for more information on the SNOBOL4 list server.

SNOBOL4 FTP Site

SNOBOL4 material, including free copies of SNOBOL4+ for MS-DOS and Phil
Budne's SNOBOL-in-C are available at this SNOBOL4
FTP site.

Phil Budne's SNOBOL4

SNOCONE

Snocone is an experimental language preprocessor created by Andrew Koenig
of AT&T Bell Laboratories. Snocone provides a "C-like" preprocessor
to the SNOBOL4 programming language. View Andy's report on snocone here.
The snocone software is available for downloading by clicking
here.

SPITBOL 360

SPITBOL 360 was the first true compiler for SNOBOL4 and is an incredibly
clever work of assembly language. SPITBOL 360 was originally distributed
under license, for a fee, from 1971 until 1984 when it was superseded by
SPITBOL 370.

SNOBOL4 T-shirt

Can't have a product without a t-shirt, right? Click on the image for
a larger picture and ordering information..

Who We Are

Catspaw, Inc. was founded in 1982 by Mark B. Emmer, an anachronist who
first saw a SNOBOL3 manual in 1967. In addition to maintaining old programming
languages, he also drives old cars, flys old airplanes and gliders, and
has a blacksmith shop. Today most of Catspaw's work has nothing to do with
SNOBOL4 -- we're experts in gigabit Fibre Channel protocol and create firmware
for next generation tape and disk drives.